Natures of colonial change : environmental relations in the making of the Transkei / Jacob A. Tropp.
Material type: TextSeries: New African histories seriesPublication details: Athens : Ohio University Press, [(c)2006.]Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 268 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780821442272
- 0821442279
- Ethnoecology -- South Africa -- Transkei -- History
- Indigenous peoples -- South Africa -- Transkei -- Social conditions
- Forest ecology -- South Africa -- Transkei
- Landscape changes -- South Africa -- Transkei
- Europe -- Colonies -- Africa
- Transkei (South Africa) -- Colonization
- Transkei (South Africa) -- Environmental conditions
- GF758
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Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | URL | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Online Book | G. Allen Fleece Library Online | Non-fiction | GF758 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Link to resource | Available | ocn658100273 |
Includes bibliographies and index.
Tensions in the colonial restructuring of local environmental authority, 1880-c. 1915 -- Environmental entitlements in the new colonial order, 1888-c. 1905 -- Shifting terrains of wood access in the early twentieth century, 1903-1930s -- Remapping historical landscapes : forest species and the contours of social and cultural life -- The python and the crying tree : commentaries on the nature of colonial and environmental power.
In this groundbreaking study, Jacob A. Tropp explores the interconnections between negotiations over the environment and an emerging colonial relationship in a particular South African context-the Transkei-subsequently the largest of the notorious "homelands" under apartheid. In the late nineteenth century, South Africa's Cape Colony completed its incorporation of the area beyond the Kei River, known as the Transkei, and began transforming the region into a labor reserve. It simultaneously restructured popular access to local forests, reserving those resources for the benefit of the white
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